College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, P. R. China School of Marine Science and Fisheries, Jiangsu Ocean University, Lianyungang 222005, P. R. China ...

State Key Laboratory of Precision Welding & Joining of Materials and Structures, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen 518055, China ...

"Subterranean drainage pipes called tiles transport nitrogen, in the form of nitrate, from fields to streams, impairing downstream surface waters," the scientists wrote. Nitrate runoff from farms ...

Not applicable for total nitrogen as it is not a product as such. Nevertheless, the major use for nitrate is inorganic fertiliser. It is also used as an oxidising agent in the production of explosives ...